The Holy Bible

the Philistines, and then being at peace, he waits a little, and Abel dies.

LB. By the advice of his mother, Jacob receives the blessing from his father, and Esau, finding himself unworthy, wrongly threatens to kill Jacob.

LG. Jacob receives a command from his father to go to Haran, and upon arriving at Bethel, he encounters a vision of God, and having anointed the pillar, he vows to give tithes to God.

LD. Arriving at the fields of Mesopotamia, he meets Rachel, opens the well, gives drink to the sheep, and enters the house of Laban.

LE. Having served for fourteen years, he takes Laban's two daughters, symbolizing the two peoples of the Messiah.

LZ. Having begotten twelve sons from the women, he grows and breathes, and by God's command, he returns to go to his father Isaac, secretly from Laban.

LE. Having secretly departed, Laban pursues Jacob, and being hindered by God from harming Jacob, he makes peace and returns back.

LY. Angels of God meet Jacob, but being suspicious of Esau, he sends him gifts, and emboldened in the evening by his endurance with God and the calling of the name, he meets Esau and sends him away with love.

LT. Arriving at Shechem, he acquires the field of Hamor for a hundred lambs.

KH. Because of the defilement of Jacob's daughter Dinah, and the revenge of the girl's brothers, they are punished by sword and plunder.

KHA. Encouraged by God, who cast upon the inhabitants of the land to destroy the rebels.

KHB. God comforts Jacob because of Deborah, and gives him the confidence of greatness, hence, calling the pillar twice, he calls the place the house of God.

KHG. Arriving near Ephrath, Rachel has a difficult birth, dies, and was buried there.

KHD. Reuben goes up to his father's bed, over whom Jacob grieved until death. This enumerates the twelve sons of Jacob; and that Isaac died in Mamre, that is Hebron.

KHE. The descendants of Esau, kings and princes from him, who thirty times count as nations, and they themselves dwelt in Seir.

KHZ. That Joseph, bearing the envy of his brothers because of his dreams, is sold into Egypt.

KHE. Er, the son of Judah, dies; but Tamar, having conceived from Judah, begets two.

KHY. That Joseph, slandered because of the woman and having entered prison, interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's servants.

KHT. He then interprets the dreams of Pharaoh, and having become a prince, he gathers grain because of the famine; and begets sons.

T. Joseph's brothers come for grain, and upon the second return, having made himself known to them, he sends for his father and the whole house because of the severity of the famine.

TA. Jacob goes down to Egypt with seventy-five souls and, having blessed Pharaoh, lives in old age with his sons through Joseph.

TB. That Joseph acquired the land along with the inhabitants for Pharaoh, except for the priests.

TG. Near the end, Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph, honoring Joseph in the mystery of the new, and claims Joseph's offspring for his own.

TD. At the hour of death, he blesses his sons by prophecy and asks Joseph to bury him in the tomb of the Abrahams in Hebron, which he did for him.

TE. Joseph comforts the suspicion of his brothers, and he himself, having seen the late-born descendants of Ephraim, prophesies about the exodus, and having commanded about his bones, dies in the glory of God.

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